lshemesh

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by lshemesh 9y ago
Jackpocket | Systems Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Competitive Pay | https://jackpocket.com Jackpocket lets people play official state lottery games right on their mobile devices. Come work with an amazing group
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by lshemesh 9y ago
Would be great if this were packaged as a Helm chart.
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by lshemesh 11y ago
Just turned 33. Was a terrible High School student and a less than stellar college student. I have always been into computers minus a brief stint as a wannabee rockstar. Moved to NYC after a couple of software development jobs in Boston. Go
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by lshemesh 12y ago
I recently did a Sidekiq background job in ruby passing messages to a python script using zeromq. It was a blast.
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by lshemesh 12y ago
This sounds like a promising idea to me. Transparency into what data you're giving away and a monetary incentive is a win win IMO.
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Wow Emacs really can do everything!
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by lshemesh 13y ago
shit I need to do this ASAP!
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Best moment: Tutorialize getting its first paying customer Learning: If you're going to use a technology like MongoDB make sure you're using it the way it was intended to be used.
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by lshemesh 13y ago
and to help my dad clean up his ridiculous Rails 2 apps
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Ask HN: What is your New Years 2014 tech resolution?
2 points by lshemesh 13y ago|5 comments
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Oops totally replied to the wrong comment! I agree!
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by lshemesh 13y ago
I think Lenovo still makes quality products, I'm currently using their x220 (with Mint). I suppose it's possible that their newer models are worse, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. The x1 carbon looks like a cool
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by lshemesh 13y ago
We'd love to send you to the Play store, but unfortunately the Google Play store is very strict regarding gambling. Interestingly enough, the Apple store isn't as strict. Go figure. Thanks for the comment!
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by lshemesh 13y ago
I'll do my best to answer your question. We already have a couple hundred users who are quite comfortable trusting us with their lottery tickets, some have won, but clearly not the millions you're referring to. I would not expect
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Many people wouldn't trust themselves with a piece of paper worth that much. At least with Jackpocket the evidence is digitized before the drawing. What's interesting is that currently that piece of paper is the only thing linking
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Yes for right now we're only in NY. Would love to open it up in New Hampshire someday.
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Totally should have mentioned this earlier. For now we're only going to be supporting NY lotteries, that's where our tickets are bought. In order to comply with current lottery rules, you have to be physically in the state of the
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by lshemesh 13y ago
FAQ isn't available quite yet, we'll be adding one soon. Jackpocket buys the lottery ticket on your behalf, and actually sends you a digital image of it. Your trust, and a whole bunch of fancy legal docs are what prevents us from
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Hey thanks for the comment! It is not a subscription delivery service as of yet. We first wanted to nail down the basics of allowing users to select their numbers and get their lottery tickets from the comfort of their own homes.
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Hey HN CTO of Jackpocket here. This has been an incredibly fun project to build. If anyone has any technology questions, happy to answer them best I can.
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by lshemesh 13y ago
I can totally sympathize with the way the author feels but at the same time I'm very aware of how much of à luxury it is to be a software engineer. especially nowadays with so many emerging technologies. if you're current job has
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Finally a chance to learn Haskell and iOS development at the same time! Will I be able to do this all from a Linux machine or do I still need Apple hardware?
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Interested to hear some opinions on the numbers in this infographic. I for one found them pretty shocking. Didn't realize Python was so popular.
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Modern language wars infographic(udemy.com)
2 points by lshemesh 13y ago|1 comments
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Easel.io is a really beautiful looking product. I just played around with the demo tour and it worked pretty well though a little quirky. Are you using Tourist.js to implement the demo tour?
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Hope you guys enjoy my blog post! Love to hear your thoughts.
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Tutorials as a band-aid(blog.tutorialize.me)
3 points by lshemesh 13y ago|1 comments
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by lshemesh 13y ago
This update was a roller coaster of changes. There was a lot of erasing mass amounts of code to get it to it's current state. If anyone has any feedback on my blog post, the features, or about the service itself, I'd love to hear them. Happ
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Tutorialize extension updates and other news(blog.tutorialize.me)
2 points by lshemesh 13y ago|1 comments
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by lshemesh 13y ago
Totally with you! All too often I hear the blanket statement thrown around that you should never use a tutorial and instead focus your energy and time in creating a really elegant UI. We live in a world where things have to happen quickly,

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